Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OpenSebJ

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. howcheng {chat} 18:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OpenSebJ

Very minor freeware, virtually no Google presence, created by User:OpenSebJ. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 12:28, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

It's actually Open Source; that's why it's been added here, also you cite this software as currently being of little significance, however it currently is in the top 3% of projects listed on Source Forge - these statistics are visible on the project page OpenSebJ SourceForge home--OpenSebJ 12:53, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

A remarkable feat, given that is scores only 40 Google hits. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 13:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• An 'activity percentile' of 98% on sourceforge does not indicate that the project is significant. That number for your project is influenced by exactly three things:

• Number of CVS commits in the last 7 days
• Age of the latest file release in days
• Number of days since the last project admin login

To get an 'activity rank' of 98% for a project, all one needs to do is log into SourceForge once every few days, have recently released a file, and commit to the CVS repository a couple of times. It says nothing about the popularity of the project or the meaningfulness of it.

That said, delete. The project has been downloaded a staggering 306 times since its first release in August 2005. This is not material for an encyclopedia. --Stephen Deken 18:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

While I appreciate your feedback on how insignificant this page apparently is when compared to the magnitude of other items within the encyclopaedia, I do wonder to myself what does qualify? Having a look at the category's of Free audio software & SourceForge projects I am still a little confused as how this is any less significant than the least significant already there? --OpenSebJ 23:10, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• My comments (and my 'delete' recommendation) are not meant to be insulting. It's just that there has to be a line somewhere between Apache and Joe's File Renaming Script such that projects on one side are included, and projects on the other side are not. Google (while not the end-all of search engines) records 'about 41' hits for the term 'OpenSebJ', of which 16 are 'sufficiently unique'. Of those, 4 are sourceforge mirrors, 7 are posts by you under the username 'opensebj' on some forums, 2 are your website, and one is the sourceforge project page. That leaves just two pages, one of which seems to be a mirror and one of which appears to be a gateway page. No one but you appears to be discussing this project at all. No one but you appears to be using it. While I wish you the best of luck with the development and promotion of this project, I just can't say that it has garnered enough interest at this point for an article here. --Stephen Deken 01:07, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Another good point is that a lot of the stuff in Wikipedia at any given moment should not be there. If AfD'd, I'm sure a lot of those SourceForge projects there would be deleted with clear consensus. --Agamemnon2 09:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok thanks for the explantion all clear now ;-)--144.131.111.109 11:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment I've just created a ridiculously incomplete page for software notability guidelines over at Wikipedia:Notability_(software). It's hard to believe that we don't already have guidelines for this sort of thing, but they're not anywhere that they can be found if we have them. --Stephen Deken 16:18, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.